PART I. EQUILIBRIUM

2. Theories of Composite Systems

§ 4. The World in Many Levels of Description

§ 5. Deductive Construction of Small Systems

§ 6. Synthetic Microanalysis of Large Systems

§ 7. Idealization, Approximation, Model

§ 8. Federal Versus Imperial Unity of Science

§ 9. Equilibrium and Optimization

3. Individuals: Systems and Constituents

§ 10. An Individual and Its Possibilities

§ 11. The Integrity of the Topic of Statistical Mechanics

§ 12. The Unit of Evolution and the Unit of Selection

§ 13. Economic Individuals as Ideal Optimizers

4. Situated Individuals and the Situation

§ 14. Independent-Individual Approximations

§ 15. Single Particles in the Self-Consistent Field

§ 16. Price Takers in the Competitive Market

§ 17. Fitness, Adaptation, and the Environment

5. Interacting Individuals and Collective Phenomena

§ 18. Intermediate Layers of Structure and Individuals

§ 19. Collective Excitations and Their Coupling

§ 20. Economic Institutions and Industrial Organization

§ 21. Population Structure and the Evolution of Altruism

6. Macro Individuals and Emergent Properties

§ 22. Emergent Characters of the System as a Whole

§ 23. Self-Organization in Phase Transition

§ 24. Adaptive-Organization of Biological Systems

§ 25. Inflation, Unemployment, and Their Microfoundation

PART II. DYNAMICS

7. The Temporality of Dynamic Systems

§ 26. Temporality and Possibility

§ 27. Endurance Versus Composition

§ 28. Past, Present, Future

8. The Complexity of Deterministic Dynamics

§ 29. Deterministic Dynamical Systems

§ 30. Stability, Instability, Bifurcation

§ 31. Chaos and Predictability

§ 32. Uniting Deterministic and Stochastic Concepts

§ 33. The Foundation of Statistical Mechanics

§ 34. Causality but not Determinism

9. Stochastic Processes

§ 35. The Calculus of Probability and Stochastic

§ 36. Stochastic and Deterministic Models of Business Cycles

§ 37. The Survival of the Fittest or the Luckiest?

§ 38. Causality and Randomness in Statistical Mechanics

§ 39. Probability but not Tychism

10. Directionality, History, Expectation

§ 40. Causality and Temporally Asymmetry

§ 41. Natural History and Its Abuse

§ 42. Dynamic Optimization, Expectation, Uncertainty

11. Epilogue

§ 43. A Look Backward and Forward

Notes

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